B743 crash in South Ayrshire on 18 April 2017 at 17:45 involving a Seat Ibiza
A Seat Ibiza and a Mazda 2 were involved in a crash on the B743 in South Ayrshire at 17:45 on Tuesday 18 April 2017. The 44-year-old female driver of the Mazda 2 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Apr 2017
- Tuesday, 17:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Seat Ibiza and Mazda 2
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.47982, longitude -4.56828, in the KA6 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in South Ayrshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201797UD00504
- Council area
- South Ayrshire
- Police force
- Strathclyde
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 743
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 4%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 96%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 1 March 2019.
Slight
Fiat Punto crash on the B743 in South Ayrshire, 1 March 2019
4 m awayRef 201997UD70103
Serious
Suzuki GSXR 750 crash on the B743 in South Ayrshire, 24 May 2019
9 m awayRef 201997UD01505
Slight
Kia Sportage crash on the B743 in South Ayrshire, 17 May 2019
10 m awayRef 201997UD70805
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B743 in South Ayrshire, 13 August 2010
12 m awayRef 201097UD02408
Slight
Honda Concerto crash on the B743 in South Ayrshire, 21 February 2000
13 m awayRef 200097RA05202
Slight
Optare crash on the B743 in South Ayrshire, 25 August 2006
16 m awayRef 200697UD05808
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Seat Ibiza
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 32 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,390 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Mazda 2
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 44 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,498 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 44, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Mazda 2)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Data source
This record comes from the Department for Transport’s road safety data (STATS19), in which police forces in Great Britain record every road crash reported to them where someone was injured. It is reference 201797UD00504 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the South Ayrshire road accident statistics for 2017.